https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mohini-ginni en-us Podomatic RSS Generator Mon, 23 Aug 2021 06:24:20 +0000 personality, ,disorder, ,adjustment, ,schizophrenia,Education,Seattle Copyright 2021 purnima arora Give it a listen! Episodic false no https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/cd/64/8f/mohini-ginni/3000x3000_3630055.jpg https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mohini-ginni purnima arora This podcast is about various psychological disorders ,their types , symptoms and detail information on those disorders. my podcast page consists of 3 disorders
Adjustment disorder
Adjustment disorder is an emotional and behavioral reaction that develops within 3 months of a life stress, and which is stronger or greater than what would be expected for the type of event that occurred.
Causes
Adults often develop adjustment disorder due to marital or financial problems.
In adolescents, common stressors include:

* Family conflict
* School problems
* Sexuality issues

Other stressors for people of any age include:

* Death of a loved one
* General life changes
* Unexpected catastrophes

There is no way to predict which people who are affected by the same stress are likely to develop adjustment disorder. Financial conditions, social support, and career and recreational opportunities can influence how well a person reacts to stress. A person's susceptibility to stress may be influenced by factors such as:

* Coping strategies
* Intelligence
* Flexibility
* Genetic factors
* Social skills

Symptoms
For a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, a person's symptoms must be severe enough to affect his or her work or social life. Some of the symptoms include:

* Agitation
* Conduct disturbances
* Depressed mood
* Palpitations
* Physical complaints
* Trembling or twitching

Symptoms of adjustment disorder typically begin within 3 months of the stressor, and usually do not last longer than 6 months, unless the stressor continues to be present (such as an illness or living in a dangerous neighborhood).
On occasion, symptoms can be severe and the person may have thoughts of suicide or make a suicide attempt.
Exams and Tests
The following criteria need to be met to establish a diagnosis:

* The symptoms clearly follow a stressor
* The symptoms are more severe than would be expected
* There do not appear to be other underlying disorders
* The symptoms are not part of normal grieving for the death of a loved one

Treatment
The main goal of treatment is to relieve symptoms and help the person return to a similar level of functioning as before the stressful event occurred.
Individual therapy can help the person:

* Get support
* Identify his or her abnormal responses to the stressor
* Maximize the use of his or her strengths

Most mental health professionals recommend some type of talk therapy to help the person identify or learn different responses to the stressors in their life. Types of therapy may include:

* Behavior therapy
* Individual psychotherapy
* Family therapy
* Self-help groups

When medications are used, they are usually in addition to other forms of treatment. Depending on the symptoms, these may include:

* Anti-anxiety medicines
* Antidepressant medicines
* Antipsychotic medicines (rarely)
* Stimulants (for patients who are very withdrawn)

Outlook (Prognosis)
Adjustment disorders usually get better quickly without any remaining symptoms.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you develop symptoms of adjustment disorder.
Prevention
There is no known way to prevent this disorder. Strong support from friends and family can help.]]> https://mohini-ginni.podomatic.com/entry/2010-11-15T10_36_20-08_00 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mohini-ginni/episodes/2010-11-15T10_36_20-08_00 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:36:20 +0000 2013-12-06 2013-12-06 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mohini-ginni/episodes/2010-11-15T10_36_20-08_00 purnima arora 165 false 1 Adjustment disorder Adjustment disorder is an emotional and behavioral reaction that develops within 3 months of a life stress, and which is stronger or greater than what would be expected for the type of event that occurred. Causes Adults often develop adjustment disorder due to marital or financial problems. In adolescents, common stressors include: * Family conflict * School problems * Sexuality issues Other stressors for people of any age include: * Death of a loved one * General life changes * Unexpected catastrophes There is no way to predict which people who are affected by the same stress are likely to develop adjustment disorder. Financial conditions, social support, and career and recreational opportunities can influence how well a person reacts to stress. A person's susceptibility to stress may be influenced by factors such as: * Coping strategies * Intelligence * Flexibility * Genetic factors * Social skills Symptoms For a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, a person's symptoms must be severe enough to affect his or her work or social life. Some of the symptoms include: * Agitation * Conduct disturbances * Depressed mood * Palpitations * Physical complaints * Trembling or twitching Symptoms of adjustment disorder typically begin within 3 months of the stressor, and usually do not last longer than 6 months, unless the stressor continues to be present (such as an illness or living in a dangerous neighborhood). On occasion, symptoms can be severe and the person may have thoughts of suicide or make a suicide attempt. Exams and Tests The following criteria need to be met to establish a diagnosis: * The symptoms clearly follow a stressor * The symptoms are more severe than would be expected * There do not appear to be other underlying disorders * The symptoms are not part of normal grieving for the death of a loved one Treatment The main goal of treatment is to relieve symptoms and help the person return to a similar level of functioning as before the stressful event occurred. Individual therapy can help the person: * Get support * Identify his or her abnormal responses to the stressor * Maximize the use of his or her strengths Most mental health professionals recommend some type of talk therapy to help the person identify or learn different responses to the stressors in their life. Types of therapy may include: * Behavior therapy * Individual psychotherapy * Family therapy * Self-help groups When medications are used, they are usually in addition to other forms of treatment. Depending on the symptoms, these may include: * Anti-anxiety medicines * Antidepressant medicines * Antipsychotic medicines (rarely) * Stimulants (for patients who are very withdrawn) Outlook (Prognosis) Adjustment disorders usually get better quickly without any remaining symptoms. When to Contact a Medical Professional Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you develop symptoms of adjustment disorder. Prevention There is no known way to prevent this disorder. Strong support from friends and family can help. Adjustment disorder Adjustment disorder is an emotional and behavioral reaction that develops wi...
PERSONALITY DISORDER
Personality disorders are pervasive chronic psychological disorders, which can greatly affect a person's life. Having a personality disorder can negatively affect one's work, one's family, and one's social life. Personality disorders exists on a continuum so they can be mild to more severe in terms of how pervasive and to what extent a person exhibits the features of a particular personality disorder. While most people can live pretty normal lives with mild personality disorders (or more simply, personality traits), during times of increased stress or external pressures (work, family, a new relationship, etc.), the symptoms of the personality disorder will gain strength and begin to seriously interfere with their emotional and psychological functioning.

Types of Personality Disorders: Cluster A, B & C
Borderline, Narcissistic, Obsessive-Compulsive & Associated Clusters



Ten types of personality disorders. - mijo1mijo_photobucket
Ten types of personality disorders. - mijo1mijo_photobucket

What Is a Personality Disorder?
Those with psychological personality disorders have traits that cause them to feel and behave in socially distressing ways, typically resulting in discord and instability in many aspects of their lives. Depending on the specific disorder, these personalities are generally described in negative terms such as hostile, detached, needy, antisocial or obsessive.
While many other psychological disorders fluctuate in terms of symptom presence and intensity, as with normal personality, personality disorders typically remain relatively constant throughout life, although they do vary in severity from individual to individual (Dobbert 2007).
Classification of Personality Disorders
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR), the reference used to clinically define mental illnesses, there are ten different personality disorders categorized into three main groupings or clusters.
Cluster A: Odd or Eccentric Behaviors
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Individuals with schizoid personality are characteristically detached from social relationships and show a restricted range of expressed emotions. Those with SPD may be perceived by others as somber and aloof, and often are referred to as "loners."
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Those with this disorder are typically distrustful and suspicious of others. Although they are prone to unjustified angry or aggressive outbursts when they perceive others as disloyal or deceitful, those with PPD more often come across as emotionally “cold” or excessively serious.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
This disorder is characterized both by a need for isolation as well as odd, outlandish, or paranoid beliefs. In social situations, they may show inappropriate reaction or not react at all, or they may talk to themselves.
Cluster B: Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic Behavior
Antisocial Personality Disorder
APD is characterized by lack of empathy or conscience, a difficulty controlling impulses and manipulative behaviors. This disorder is sometimes also referred to as psychopathy or sociopathy, however, Antisocial Personality Disorder is the clinical terminology used for diagnosis.
Borderline Personality Disorder
This mental illness interferes with an individual’s ability to regulate emotion. The characteristic emotional instability results in dramatic and abrupt shifts in mood, impulsivity, poor self-image and tumultuous interpersonal relationships. Borderlines are highly sensitive to rejection, and fear of abandonment may result in frantic efforts to avoid being left alone, such a suicide threats and attempts.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
NPD is characterized primarily by grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. Narcissism occurs in a spectrum of severity, but the pathologically narcissistic tend to be extremely self-absorbed, intolerant of others’ perspectives, insensitive to others’ needs and indifferent to the effect of their own egocentric behavior.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Individuals with this personality disorder exhibit a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attempt to get attention in unusual ways, such as bizarre appearance or speech. With rapidly shifting, shallow emotions, histrionics can be extremely theatrical, and constantly need to be the center of attention.
Cluster C: Anxious, Fearful Behavior
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Those with avoidant personalities are often hypersensitive to rejection and unwilling to take social risks. Avoidants display a high level of social discomfort, timidity, fear of criticism, avoidance of activities that involve interpersonal contact.
Dependent Personality Disorder
People with dependent disorder typically exhibit a pattern of needy and submissive behavior, and rely on others to make decisions for them. Dependent personalities require excessive reassurance and advice, and are extremely sensitive to criticism or disapproval.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Individuals with OCPD, also called Anankastic Personality Disorder, are so focused on order and perfection that their lack of flexibility interferes with productivity and efficiency. They can also be workaholics, preferring the control of working alone, as they are afraid that work completed by others will not be done correctly]]> https://mohini-ginni.podomatic.com/entry/2010-11-15T10_34_28-08_00 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mohini-ginni/episodes/2010-11-15T10_34_28-08_00 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:34:28 +0000 2013-12-06 2013-12-06 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mohini-ginni/episodes/2010-11-15T10_34_28-08_00 purnima arora 148 false 2 PERSONALITY DISORDER Personality disorders are pervasive chronic psychological disorders, which can greatly affect a person's life. Having a personality disorder can negatively affect one's work, one's family, and one's social life. Personality disorders exists on a continuum so they can be mild to more severe in terms of how pervasive and to what extent a person exhibits the features of a particular personality disorder. While most people can live pretty normal lives with mild personality disorders (or more simply, personality traits), during times of increased stress or external pressures (work, family, a new relationship, etc.), the symptoms of the personality disorder will gain strength and begin to seriously interfere with their emotional and psychological functioning. Types of Personality Disorders: Cluster A, B & C Borderline, Narcissistic, Obsessive-Compulsive & Associated Clusters Ten types of personality disorders. - mijo1mijo_photobucket Ten types of personality disorders. - mijo1mijo_photobucket What Is a Personality Disorder? Those with psychological personality disorders have traits that cause them to feel and behave in socially distressing ways, typically resulting in discord and instability in many aspects of their lives. Depending on the specific disorder, these personalities are generally described in negative terms such as hostile, detached, needy, antisocial or obsessive. While many other psychological disorders fluctuate in terms of symptom presence and intensity, as with normal personality, personality disorders typically remain relatively constant throughout life, although they do vary in severity from individual to individual (Dobbert 2007). Classification of Personality Disorders According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR), the reference used to clinically define mental illnesses, there are ten different personality disorders categorized into three main groupings or clusters. Cluster A: Odd or Eccentric Behaviors Schizoid Personality Disorder Individuals with schizoid personality are characteristically detached from social relationships and show a restricted range of expressed emotions. Those with SPD may be perceived by others as somber and aloof, and often are referred to as "loners." Paranoid Personality Disorder Those with this disorder are typically distrustful and suspicious of others. Although they are prone to unjustified angry or aggressive outbursts when they perceive others as disloyal or deceitful, those with PPD more often come across as emotionally “cold” or excessively serious. Schizotypal Personality Disorder This disorder is characterized both by a need for isolation as well as odd, outlandish, or paranoid beliefs. In social situations, they may show inappropriate reaction or not react at all, or they may talk to themselves. Cluster B: Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic Behavior Antisocial Personality Disorder APD is characterized by lack of empathy or conscience, a difficulty controlling impulses and manipulative behaviors. This disorder is sometimes also referred to as psychopathy or sociopathy, however, Antisocial Personality Disorder is the clinical terminology used for diagnosis. Borderline Personality Disorder This mental illness interferes with an individual’s ability to regulate emotion. The characteristic emotional instability results in dramatic and abrupt shifts in mood, impulsivity, poor self-image and tumultuous interpersonal relationships. Borderlines are highly sensitive to rejection, and fear of abandonment may result in frantic efforts to avoid being left alone, such a suicide threats and attempts. Narcissistic Personality Disorder NPD is characterized primarily by grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. Narcissism occurs in a spectrum of severity, but the pathologically narcissistic tend to be extremely self-absorbed, intolerant of others’ perspectives, insensitive to others’ needs and indiffe(continued) PERSONALITY DISORDER Personality disorders are pervasive chronic psychological disorders, which ...
What is schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia, also sometimes called split personality disorder, is a chronic, severe, debilitating mental illness that affects about 1% of the population, corresponding to more than 2 million people in the United States alone. Other statistics about schizophrenia include that it affects men about one and a half times more commonly than women. It is one of the psychotic mental disorders and is characterized by symptoms of thought, behavior, and social problems. The thought problems associated with schizophrenia are described as psychosis, in that the person's thinking is completely out of touch with reality at times. For example, the sufferer may hear voices or see people that are in no way present or feel like bugs are crawling on their skin when there are none. The individual with this disorder may also have disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, physically rigid or lax behavior (catatonia), significantly decreased behaviors or feelings, as well as delusions, which are ideas about themselves or others that have no basis in reality (for example, experience the paranoi of thinking others are plotting against them when they are not).

What are the different types of schizophrenia?

There are five types of schizophrenia, each based on the kind of symptoms the person has at the time of assessment:

* Paranoid schizophrenia: The individual is preoccupied with one or more delusions or many auditory hallucinations but does not have symptoms of disorganized schizophrenia.
* Disorganized schizophrenia: Prominent symptoms are disorganized speech and behavior, as well as flat or inappropriate affect. The person does not have enough symptoms to be characterized as catatonic schizophrenic.
* Catatonic schizophrenia: The person with this type of schizophrenia primarily has at least two of the following symptoms: difficulty moving, resistance to moving, excessive movement, abnormal movements, and/or repeating what others say or do.
* Undifferentiated schizophrenia: This is characterized by episodes of two or more of the following symptoms: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behavior, catatonic behavior or negative symptoms, but the individual does not qualify for a diagnosis of paranoid, disorganized, or catatonic type of schizophrenia.
* Residual schizophrenia: While the full-blown characteristic positive symptoms of schizophrenia (those that involve an excess of normal behavior, such as delusions, paranoia, or heightened sensitivity) are absent, the sufferer has less severe forms of the disorder or has only negative symptoms (symptoms characterized by a decrease in function, such as withdrawal, disinterest, and not speaking).
]]> https://mohini-ginni.podomatic.com/entry/2010-11-15T10_31_20-08_00 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mohini-ginni/episodes/2010-11-15T10_31_20-08_00 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:31:20 +0000 2013-12-06 2013-12-06 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mohini-ginni/episodes/2010-11-15T10_31_20-08_00 purnima arora 115 false 3 What is schizophrenia? Schizophrenia, also sometimes called split personality disorder, is a chronic, severe, debilitating mental illness that affects about 1% of the population, corresponding to more than 2 million people in the United States alone. Other statistics about schizophrenia include that it affects men about one and a half times more commonly than women. It is one of the psychotic mental disorders and is characterized by symptoms of thought, behavior, and social problems. The thought problems associated with schizophrenia are described as psychosis, in that the person's thinking is completely out of touch with reality at times. For example, the sufferer may hear voices or see people that are in no way present or feel like bugs are crawling on their skin when there are none. The individual with this disorder may also have disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, physically rigid or lax behavior (catatonia), significantly decreased behaviors or feelings, as well as delusions, which are ideas about themselves or others that have no basis in reality (for example, experience the paranoi of thinking others are plotting against them when they are not). What are the different types of schizophrenia? There are five types of schizophrenia, each based on the kind of symptoms the person has at the time of assessment: * Paranoid schizophrenia: The individual is preoccupied with one or more delusions or many auditory hallucinations but does not have symptoms of disorganized schizophrenia. * Disorganized schizophrenia: Prominent symptoms are disorganized speech and behavior, as well as flat or inappropriate affect. The person does not have enough symptoms to be characterized as catatonic schizophrenic. * Catatonic schizophrenia: The person with this type of schizophrenia primarily has at least two of the following symptoms: difficulty moving, resistance to moving, excessive movement, abnormal movements, and/or repeating what others say or do. * Undifferentiated schizophrenia: This is characterized by episodes of two or more of the following symptoms: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behavior, catatonic behavior or negative symptoms, but the individual does not qualify for a diagnosis of paranoid, disorganized, or catatonic type of schizophrenia. * Residual schizophrenia: While the full-blown characteristic positive symptoms of schizophrenia (those that involve an excess of normal behavior, such as delusions, paranoia, or heightened sensitivity) are absent, the sufferer has less severe forms of the disorder or has only negative symptoms (symptoms characterized by a decrease in function, such as withdrawal, disinterest, and not speaking). What is schizophrenia? Schizophrenia, also sometimes called split personality disorder, is a c...